So, Tanenbaum is giving a lecture at my university tomorrow. What would be a good way to troll him? I was thinking of wearing a shirt stating: "GNU Hurd - The power of microkernels." It's also money savvy because I could use that to troll RMS if he ever comes here. Some other guy suggested printing the flamewar off Google News and asking him for an autograph.
Note that it can't be something that would take too long to prepare (I only have until tomorrow) or something stupid he's sick and tired of hearing all the time (ie: "LAWL LINUX TARBALLS OWNED YOUR FACE BACK WHEN I WAS 5").
Also, Mr. Tanenbaum, if you're reading this, could you please ask "If you post on /prog/@world4ch, stand up." tomorrow? If you do so, you'll become the second /prog/ god, right after The Sussman.
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Anonymous2008-03-14 8:15
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They wear those dangly bulb things, and have a asterisk hat.
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Anonymous2008-03-14 8:33
Anyone want the other Tanenbaum book [i]Computer Networks[i]?
Well, Tanenbaum didn't autograph the flamewar I printed out. He said that he's so tired of hearing about it, he keeps getting tons of emails from random people with stuff like "I am Jin Xhung. Linus is very good person, you are bad man." daily. If you look back, he was so unlucky it's almost funny, he did sane predictions and then the impossible happened, several times. 386? Who the fuck is going to be running 386s in a couple of years? Shit sucks, right?
He signed my Minix CD, though. He's a pretty nice guy. I really liked his presentation.